Artificial tree



Ju'ne 17, 1930. R. VYDRA 1,764,540

ARTIFICIAL' TREE Filed Jan. 5, 1929 Jh vena.-

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Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES ROBERT VYDRA, or N'UREMBERG,GERMANY ARTIFICIAL TREE .Application filed January 3, 1929, Serial No330,071, and in Germany November 30, 1928.

My present invention relates to artificial trees of any kind such as thewell known Christmas trees, fancy or decorative trees, which may bemanufactured in different forms, as conicallyor pyramidically sha ed orin the shape of an Obelisk, a ball or the like. According to theinvention the branches are not fixed on the stem as usual but ropesembodying the foliage or the needles respective ly are wound around alattice work, whereby the said ropes are made in long veins of anysuitable material. The material Vwound around the lattice work may bemanufactured in any colour and also the lattice work may be of anysuitable material.

The annexed drawing shows by way of example a form of my invention in aperspective view partly in section without defining its limits.

On the drawing is illustrated a tree having a conical form, which isshaped by a lattice work a covered with pasteboard c and pro' vided forexample at the middle and at the foot with horizontal disks b ofdifferent diameters embodying the form and having the purpose ofstiening the lattice work in its horizontal direction. Around the forni.shaped in such a manner ropes embodying the foliage or the needlesrespectively are wound which are manufactured in long veins of anysuitable material or stu, such as coloured feathers, paper, straw,imitation silk, woody fibres or the Hinoki Festoonings, a material wellknown in the United States of America.

The stem is fixed in a socket'd and on the several braces of the latticework a number of members are provided which receive electrical lamps e.

lVhat I claim is:

1. An artificial tree of conical form with ropes Wound in long veinsaround the conical form, comprising in combination a lattice work, acovering of even pasteboard arranged around said lattice work,horizontal reinforcing disks fixed at the middle and the foot of y saidlattice work.

2. An artificialtree as claimed inclaim 1 comprising in combination aconically formed lattice work, a coverin fixed on said lattice work,electrical lamps xed in said covering.

In testimony whereof I afx m Signaturen.

ROBERT IYDRA.

